Oct. 1, 2016 Rajewski

Oct.1, 2016 Kazmierczak

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Problem?

Tori-What pictures are you referring to? The pictures on the right side all work. If you don't see them using the IE browser, try using a Chrome or Firefox browser but they show in my IE browser also. Let me know if it is still a problem for you. Does anyone else have a problem viewing the pictures on the right side?

Another beautiful day in Poznań. Had a nice conversation with a friend about the differences between what is known as Poland A and Poland B. Basically, Poland is divided between the east and west by a river. Poland A is to the west of the river while Poland B is to the east. It's considered by many, in his opinion, that the majority of government money is spent on Poland A for development, investment and major projects. People in Poland B often feel neglected by the government. When I was staying at the farmhouse the last two weeks, there were 5 farm workers there from Lublin, a city in the east, and they told me the same thing. They resented the fact that they had to travel west just to find work and could only be home on the weekends.

We've done some traveling in the east, to Lublin, Zamość and Rzeszów. The farms we saw had whole families in the fields picking the vegetables and few had machinery. The villages we passed through were not in really good shape but, of course, the cities were in better condition so I can't say whether or not the above is true, it's the observations of other people.